Lurline Wailana McGregor is a writer, filmmaker, administrator and paddler from Hawaii.
[2] In 1986 McGregor joined the staff of Senator Daniel Inouye where she focused on Native American issues.
[1] She filmed a documentary about her journey aboard the Hōkūleʻa, a double hulled voyaging canoe.
[5] Later she was CEO and president of 'Ōlelo Community Television, a non-profit access-provider in O'ahu, where she helped establish NATV 53, a channel for native Hawaiian content.
[6] The hopeful novel was inspired by the New Zealand film Whale Rider and tells of a Hawaiian-born anthropologist forced to choose between her career on the mainland and her ancestral responsibilities.